Everybody’s Looking For Something — On Location at the ‘Mad Max 2 Museum’

Breathing in the view at one of the Mad Max filming locations, a single clear note strikes me head-on. The post-apocalyptic landscape, framed on film by director George Miller, required precious little window dressing. Surrounded by oceans of red desert, the outlying areas of the Broken Hill and Silverton catchment are just as remarkable in real life. The eerie backdrop to Max’s nightmarish encounters is, in reality, the stunning everyday view from the residents’ verandahs. That’s not to say that the land is bleak, or brutal, or grotesque. Strip away Max Rockatansky, the feral kids and the junkyard frankensteins, and you’re left with something truly astonishing. It’s not the postcard idyll of Australia, but it’s idyllic nonetheless. Towns that sprung from a now-defunct mining industry reach out with redefined purpose, welcoming tourists, desert-sea changers and production companies looking to marry endless, peerless landscapes with an infrastructure backbone that meets all modern requirements. <a href="https://medium.com/@stuartbuchanan/everybodys-looking-for-something-on-location-at-the-mad-max-2-museum-4c7b14669003">Website</a>